BlockFrom the record
One of 30 National Register listings published here for Gage County · listed in 1992 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Mission Creek Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Co. Hwy. over Mission Cr., 7 mi SW of Barneston, Barneston, 68381
- When was it listed? June 1992
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Highway Bridges in Nebraska MPS
- National Register reference number. 92000762 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Mission Creek Bridge between 2009 and 2016, burning about 50 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 98 |
| 22 January 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
20 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barneston, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 9 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Flood | Barneston | $100,000 | Very heavy rainfall of 3 to 7 inches feel upstream of the river gauge and allowed for the river to rise into moderate flooding near Barneston. This resulted in significant low-land flooding along the river. In addition, small streams near Wymore and Blue Springs backed up causing local flood problems in these areas. The Big Blue River near Barneston crested at 28.93 feet or 8.93 feet above flood stage during the morning on the 8th. |
| April 2008 | Flood | Barneston | $25,000 | Rainfall of 2 to 4 inches over a several hour period across a section of the lower Big Blue River basin in southeast Nebraska caused the Big Blue River near Barneston to flood. The river near Barneston reached 20.8 feet at 1115 am CDT on April 25th, flood stage is 20 feet. The river was above flood stage near Barneston from around 1015 am through 215 pm. The flooding caused some road and culvert damage in addition to flooding agricultural lowlands. |
| May 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Barneston | - | Storm chaser reported funnel cloud via social media. |
| May 2020 | Tornado (EFU) | Barneston | - | Broadcast media had video from an employee who was storm chasing of a brief touch down of a tornado. |
| June 2020 | Flood | Barneston | - | River gage at Barneston operated by the USGS was above the rated flood stage for approximately 30 hours. |
| March 2019 | Hail | Barneston | - | The public reported ping pong to golf ball size hail. |
| June 2015 | Flood | Barneston | - | Significant agricultural flooding was observed along the Big Blue River near Barneston as the river crested 6.59 feet above flood stage. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barneston | - | A trained spotter reported tree damage at the intersection of State Highways 77 and 8. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Barneston | - | Hail of nickel to quarter-size fell west of Barneston. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barneston | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph downed large tree limbs in the area. The winds were accompanied by hail around an inch in diameter. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Barneston | - | The thunderstorm also produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph which downed large tree limbs in the area. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Barneston | - | Reported 6 miles south of Wymore. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barneston | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph by a cooperative observer removed the roof from a porch and part of a shed. Large tree limbs were also downed and a window of a farm building was blown out. The winds were accompanied by 3/4 inch hail. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barneston | - | Many trees and power poles downed. Windows blown out of a house. A few trees fell on cars causing severe damage. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barneston | - | Large tree limbs downed. |
| October 2007 | Hail | Barneston | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Barneston | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Barneston | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Barneston | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Barneston | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 92000762 in Record Group 79. |
| Gage County | All 30 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.